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(phone ringing)

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- Yep.

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- Hey, man.

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Are you seeing this beautiful morning?

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What are you doing?

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How are you?

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- What am I doing?

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I'm set up here like you asked me to.

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- Oh, right, duh.

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- I did a film with Bill
Hader and Alec Berg,

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and they said they cast
you in part because

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they liked the way you were responding

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to things, and listening, and being

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very thoughtful about it, and they thought

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that's something NoHo Hank would do.

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How would you respond to that,

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and how was it working with those guys?

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- Well, I mean, those guys
are just absolute legends.

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It was really, you know,
it was just so easy to

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kind of see their vision, and see what

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they were creating, and it was so cool.

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As soon as I got the script, I was like:

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"Wow, this is something amazing,

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"this is something so special,

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and it's something I
definitely wanna be a part of."

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So that enthusiasm, I think,
probably translated for

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them as soon as I met
them, 'cause I was, yeah,

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probably hanging on every
word that they were saying.

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Sure, guys, yeah, I was.

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I'll admit it, you know, I was into it.

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- On Instagram, you had said
that a couple years ago,

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someone told you you'd
never work again, and that

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you decided to be proactive, and say:

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"Here's the things I wanna do."

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And one of them was an HBO show.

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- [Anthony Carrigan] Yep.

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- A, who told you that and why?

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And B, it seems like it worked
out pretty well for you.

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- Yeah, I'm not gonna mention who it was.

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- [Interviewer] That's fine.

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- But, it's funny, I've
been thinking about that

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recently, 'cause, yeah, I
was told that, and I was

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told that it just wasn't
gonna happen, and it's

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funny how sometimes it's
those things, and not

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necessarily the people who are...

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I mean, the people who
are supporting you are

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wonderful, and so necessary,
but sometimes it's

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funny, too, because the
people who tell you that

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you can't do it can also be
a catalyst in you doing it.

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Yeah, I really kind of vision
boarded that stuff, and

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made a real, you know, made
it really clear that this

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is what I wanna do, I wanna
kind of create a really

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fun character on an HBO
show with wonderful people,

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and just like magic, it happened.

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- What do you think NoHo Hank's deal is?

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What does he really want?

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Is he from North Hollywood?

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I mean, does he live in North Hollywood?

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- Oh, you want all the secrets.

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You want all the secret sauce.

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Well, you know, I mean,
I think there are certain

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opinions I have about the character

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that I kinda keep in my back pocket.

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To be honest, what I think Hank wants is

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you know, for people to
like him, and to have

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friends, and to do lots of
really fun Los Angeles things,

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'cause I feel like it's a
pretty stark juxtaposition

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between sunny Los Angeles and Chechnya.

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So, yeah, I think he's just
very grateful to be where

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he is, and he wants to live it up.

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He wants to live it up
in sunny Los Angeles.

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- I was gonna ask if you
did any Chechnya research,

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and how, where'd the accent come from?

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- I did, I did do a lot of research.

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And you know, at first,
the kind of accent was

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more kind of, Russian-based
and we had an expert

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come in to help us out
with very specific sounds,

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so I hope it comes across as Russian,

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and not any number of other countries.

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So, yeah hopefully that'll
read, but yeah, we definitely

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all work towards trying to bring

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truth and reality to these characters.

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- [Interviewer] Chechen reality.

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- Yeah, Chechen reality,
you know. It's real.

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- Do you wanna go?

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- What's that?

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- Do you wanna go?

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- To Chechnya?
- Yeah.

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- Um, I don't know, I might
lay low for a little while.

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But, maybe sometime in the future.

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- Have you allowed yourself
to think about a season two?

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Like, to think, you know,
what would NoHo Hank do?

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- Yeah, I mean, it's hard not to.

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I really just kind of fell
in love with this project,

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and fell in love with the
character, so, I would be

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very, very, very happy to continue

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playing this character, so, see if we can.

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- You have alopecia, you've
talked about it a lot.

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Do you think you get typecast as

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a villain because of having alopecia?

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- I mean, partially, yeah, I think part of

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the thing about having
a unique look is people

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assume that, oh, it's
different, so it's strange,

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so it's like, oh, there's
something off about it.

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There's something weird about it.

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You know, sure, that can be an element.

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I mean, I also think
that bald guys have been

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the villain so much...
- [Interviewer] For years.

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- Yeah, like, being a
pirate, got it, you know?

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It's already my job,
but yeah, I'm excited to

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kind of change the trajectory into a place

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where I'm playing just
more nuanced characters.

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- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- Like, even with Hank.

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I mean, he's a villain, but
he's a really sweet guy.

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- [Interviewer] Yeah, he's sending

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emojis and stuff on the phone.

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- Exactly, yeah, he's very tech-savvy.

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(laughter)

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- I mean, I know that
you are not an author

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into that phone, like
sending those to Bill, but

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I like to imagine it all the same.

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- Right, totally, yep, absolutely.

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- I come from baddest ending.

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Best assassinating history of Chechnya!

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- What does this mean for me and Barry?

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- We can probably kill you but

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I'm going to check with Goran here.

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